Deeply spiritual and empathetic letter from one Quaker minister to another. Eliza H. Varney is noted in the The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal..... Read More about 1906 Autograph Letter Signed b Eliza H. Varney, Canadian Quaker Minister, to Minister Thomas...
Civil War-era letters from two Northern women, Quakers Lucy and Sarah Chase of Worcester, Massachusetts, presenting a first-hand description of the conditions in freedpersons’ or..... Read More about Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps
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Upon the death of Dr. John D. Godman, the Quakers of Philadelphia memorialized him as a Christian philosopher. Godman was remembered as a naturalist, encyclopedist..... Read More about A Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. John D. Godman [Two variant editions
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Scarce poem outlining the early history of Westtown School, a co-educational Quaker boarding school established in 1799 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The poem, which has..... Read More about West-Town. [Westtown School; Chester County, Pennsylvania
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates..... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and...
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
This address exhorts fellow Quakers to righteously oppose slavery; to avoid using products derived from slave labor; to attend to the moral and education uplifting..... Read More about An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof, composing...
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of..... Read More about 1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia
